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International Political Psychology Explorations into a New Discipline Anna Cornelia Beyer International Political Psychology Anna C ornelia Beyer International Political Psychology Explorations into a New Discipline Anna Cornelia Beyer University of Hull England, UK ISBN 978-1-137-37778-4 ISBN 978-1-137-37779-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-37779-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016956387 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2 017 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identifi ed as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the pub- lisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover illustration: © Blue Room / Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Macmillan Publishers Ltd. The registered company address is: The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, United Kingdom For William Ramsey with lots of love A CKNOWLEDGEMENTS This book benefi tted enormously from the help, support, inspiration and patience of a large number of individuals and organisations. First, of course, the School of Politics, Philosophy and International Studies at the University of Hull under the leadership, at the beginning, of Justin Morris and later of Caroline Kennedy, who provided the supporting and enabling environment in which I worked on this book for over four years. I’m very grateful for all of my colleagues’ patience and encouragement, and their putting up with my throwing around of sometimes half-baked ideas. The Nebrija University in Madrid, Spain, enabled the work on the para- psychology chapter with a visiting fellowship in summer 2014. This fellow- ship resulted in very benefi cial and enlightening exchanges, for example, with Tina Lindhard, which very much helped with the fi nalisation of this chapter. Also, it was just pure great fun! I owe a debt to the International Society of Political Psychology as well as the Society for Terrorism Studies for allowing me to present my work, which helped me further clarify my ideas and polish them. Also, the Department for Peace Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, was incredibly helpful, and supported the fi nalisation of the last chapter with a supply of important ideas and the offer of a visiting fellowship. Many individuals have guided me throughout the research on this book. First to be mentioned is Ralf Köeniger, a school friend of mine, who some- time back around 2005 made the off-hand remark that most of politics is in fact psychology. This remark, many years later, inspired the fundamental idea for this research. From the beginning of this work, Jonathan Mercer vii viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and Alexander Wendt were incredibly helpful and supportive. Jon in partic- ular provided invaluable feedback on many drafts of chapters and encour- aged me all along the way. As my research progressed, many individuals shared their ideas and information, such as Roger Nelson, Brenda Dunne, Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Ken Booth, Alex Wood, Rainer Schmalz-Bruns, Luis Cabrera, Mark Ellerby, Alex P. Schmid, Michael Züern, Randall Schweller, Carl Turner, Jon Pevehouse, Beate Jahn, John Read, Oliver Richmond, Colin Tyler, Tom Kane, Justin Morris, Stella Gonzalez-Arnal, Catarina Kinnvall, Geoff Probert and again Caroline Kennedy and many others who endured my prolifi c fl ow of emails and drafts and replied or helped me in one way or the other. Even my students contributed to the realisation of this book, and often inspired crucial ideas with their discus- sion of my thoughts. I also would like to thank several anonymous review- ers. To all of them I am very grateful. Of course, any errors are entirely mine. Last but not least, I would like to mention the very supportive and patient staff at Palgrave, in particular Hannah Kaspar, Sarah Roughley and Samantha Snedden, who believed in this book and guided me through the writing process, even when I sometimes lost the view of the big pic- ture. And also my amazing partner William Ramsey and my lovely family, Wolfgang, Hannelore, Gilbert Beyer and Edda Klipp, have contributed enormously to this book, all in their separate ways, with inspiration, listen- ing to my ideas and providing feedback and just generally putting up with me through the ups and downs of writing this book. Without them, this book would not have been written. If this book would lead to the founding of the discipline of International Political Psychology sometime in the future, this would be a more than deserved result. C ONTENTS 1 Introduction 1 2 International Relations 5 3 The Origins of Interstate War: From Realism to Social Psychology 2 7 4 Social Dominance and Hegemony 5 5 5 Happiness, Equality and Communication 7 9 6 Mental Health and International Relations: Why We Need to Look at Mental Health as a Security Issue 1 05 7 Schizophrenic States, Terrorism, and Paranoia in International Relations 129 8 Insights from Para-Psychology and Eastern Psychology: Applications to International Relations 1 51 ix x CONTENTS 9 From Peace Psychology to the World State Debate 1 73 Index 193 L F IST OF IGURES Fig. 8.1 E ffects of negative emotions 158 Fig. 8.2 E ffects of positive emotions 1 59 xi
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